The holy grail that the linux community strives for is Linux on the desktop. I personally feel this is somewhat misguided. While is is possible that Linux will make a charge into to the desktop, this doesnt really feel like its natural place. The desktop is Microsoft's bread and butter and they will not give this sector up easily, and if I am honest, I still think they deliver a better product on the desktop.

Opensource unix varients (to include the BSDs) will eventually control the server arena IMHO. Linux on the desktop will be a powerful option for developers and power users, but I dont even see mainstream adoption of linux on the client, where users are happy to trade security for simplicity, power for ease of use etc...

Just to clarify, when I say Linux will eventually control the server arena I mean that Microsoft's server offerings will decline to the point that they become unprofitable and eventually be discontinued.

edna mp3 streaming for nslu2 on Wed 9th May 11amI've been streaming music from my home
NSLU2 server for a while now using
mt-daapd (firefly) which is an ITunes
server for linux. I can connect to my
home network from work using ITunes and
a little daap proxy app called
rendevous.
My friend was doing

Tweaking Apache and Mysql for Low Memory on Fri 20th Oct 11ami implemented this to tweak my
apache/mysql for better performance on
my NSLU2. Hard to tell if its helping
much though ;-) Mysql really doesnt run
too well with apache on NSLU2 so I dont
use it for much.
http://www.unixshell.com/wiki/index.php/
Optimiz

How to mount .iso file on NSLU2 running
debianslug on Tue 19th Sep 12pmIf like me your running debianslug on an
NSLU2 and you'd like to mount an iso
file so it can be directly streamed to
Xbox Media Centre (its a beautiful
solution isnt it!) then simply do the
following.
Ensure you have loop support in your
debianslug k

TorrentFlux on NSLU2 DebianSlug on Wed 23rd Aug 5amI installed torrentflux on my NSLU2 over
the weekend - mainly because of some
frustrations with rtorrent.
rtorrent is a superb client (in spite of
rakshasa's relucatance to include
encryption support inline with azureus
and utorrent) and version 0.6.0

Testing your knowledge of Linux
administration tools, very light shell
scripting, and good high level
understanding of how the OS works at the
user level. Anyone who has worked with
Linux for 1-3 years should do good.